Dear Consumerist,Please tell all of the interwebs to boycot Lego forever. My son just wrote their customer service department to kindly point out that there product wood be better if there peaces woodnt fall out of his pockets, and rather than fix it and give us moneys, they sent us some peaces we dint ask for.Yours,The Average Consumerist Reader

I was going to buy a Monthly recurring Fark Membership but I maxed out my credit card on Heinekens and Kentucky Wildcats season tickets. My father told me if I wanted a Fark membership I shouldn't spend my money on the best beer in the world and the best basketball team, but I didn't listen. If you have it in your heart I ask if you would sponsor me for one month of TotalFark. Thanks!

Dad: I don't think we should take your toy with us. It will be too easy to lose a piece. Why don't you take this toy instead? (picks up other toy)Kid: but daaaaaad! I want to take THIS toy! I won't lose it, I promiseDad: ok, fine.*kid loses toy*Kid: Daaaaaad, I can't find my toy!Dad: Then I guess we learned a valuable lesson, didn't we?

I'm a dad with a 4yo son who's just getting into Lego, and we had to send out a request for a replacement O-ring that flew off in an assembly. I got a prompt response and expect replacements (yeah, I hear they like to send extra pieces) in a day or two. Great service backing up a great product? Yeah, I can get behind that. Very cute story in TFA, too.

I sent a letter to Tom's of Maine about how I use their toothpaste because it is bear-proof, but I didn't get any free toothpaste back from them. Just a nice letter about how the CSR hadn't heard about the bear thing.

When I was a little kid, we had a house fire and some of my Legos from school were melted. I wrote to the Lego people asking how much replacements would cost (probably a lot, as they were the cool educational Legos with motors and gears and such,) as I wanted to replace them for my gifted teacher, hopefully before she found out what had happened.

They sent a complete replacement set, not just the pieces I had taken home for my assignment, but a whole set for me to take to my teacher, as well as a second set for me to use at home. I was nine years old and have never forgotten the Lego people's kindness. I still have the whole set they sent me, motors, gears and all, not one piece is missing, and while I did marry a fellow Lego fan (after many cool dates building little mechas and stuff with 'em,) I'm afraid future kid is getting their own Legos until they are old enough for these.

My son managed to lose 2 out of 3 of the plastic cookies that came with his Count'n Crunch Cookie Monster. Knowing that the third one was on borrowed time, I emailed Playskool customer service to see if I could buy more. Within a day, I got a reply saying they were going to send us a replacement set for free. Ten business days later, got the package.

Acharne:Sin_City_Superhero: Another damn liberal, asking corporate America for a handout. Stupid crotch-crab should've spent his Christmas money on bootstraps, so he'd have something to pull himself up by.

Some companies really go out of their way for kids. The year my youngest turned 10, he wasnuts about the THX trailers. He has Asperger's and tends to really hyper-focus on his interests.At any rate, he really wanted a DVD of nothing but the THX trailers. Problem is, no such thingexisted.

I emailed the PR department at THX and explained the situation. A couple of days before myson's birthday party, a box arrived from the good folks at THX. In it where 3 different DVDs ofthe THX trailers, a birthday card with a handwritten note, and a squishy THX mechanic figure.

It made my son's birthday like you would not believe.

These days, and for some time now, his big interest is weather. He wants to be a meteorologistlike nobody's business. I emailed all of our local news stations to see if they allowed any kind oftours of the studio. About a week later I get an email from the chief meteorologist from WESH 2in Orlando wanting to know when we could get up there for a 6pm newscast.

So that Friday, my husband, my mom, my son and I drove out to the station. They brought usinto the studio to watch the news being broadcast. My son got to sit up in the computer nestwith the tech who controls the cameras and about halfway through the broadcast, he got to situp in the Weather Center (off camera, but still there) with the meteorologist.

All of that was cool enough, but he had the tech leave up all of the weather graphics and thegreen screen and after the news cast was over, he let my son do a run through of the weekendweather report and 7-day forecast.

It was the coolest thing. Even though my son is only 11, nobody talked down to him. He and themeteorologist talked weather, what he needed to do in school to become a meteorologist, all ofthe different jobs available in the field, etc...

Here is my little guy (pardon the fuzzy pics - we only had my husband's cell with us and thecamera on it is crap):

This made me cry. I was a huge Lego fan when I was young. I was born in 84 I had a huge Lego collection. Companies like these are irreplaceable. I wish I still had the imagination that made Legos the coolest toys ever. Growing up sucks.

digitalrain:Some companies really go out of their way for kids. The year my youngest turned 10, he wasnuts about the THX trailers. He has Asperger's and tends to really hyper-focus on his interests.At any rate, he really wanted a DVD of nothing but the THX trailers. Problem is, no such thingexisted.

I emailed the PR department at THX and explained the situation. A couple of days before myson's birthday party, a box arrived from the good folks at THX. In it where 3 different DVDs ofthe THX trailers, a birthday card with a handwritten note, and a squishy THX mechanic figure.

It made my son's birthday like you would not believe.

These days, and for some time now, his big interest is weather. He wants to be a meteorologistlike nobody's business. I emailed all of our local news stations to see if they allowed any kind oftours of the studio. About a week later I get an email from the chief meteorologist from WESH 2in Orlando wanting to know when we could get up there for a 6pm newscast.

So that Friday, my husband, my mom, my son and I drove out to the station. They brought usinto the studio to watch the news being broadcast. My son got to sit up in the computer nestwith the tech who controls the cameras and about halfway through the broadcast, he got to situp in the Weather Center (off camera, but still there) with the meteorologist.

All of that was cool enough, but he had the tech leave up all of the weather graphics and thegreen screen and after the news cast was over, he let my son do a run through of the weekendweather report and 7-day forecast.

It was the coolest thing. Even though my son is only 11, nobody talked down to him. He and themeteorologist talked weather, what he needed to do in school to become a meteorologist, all ofthe different jobs available in the field, etc...

Here is my little guy (pardon the fuzzy pics - we only had my husband's cell with us and thecamera on it is crap):